Chadron Parcel Explorer

Street lines, railway and building footprints are from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and are shown only to help you find a property. Street names, the IOLL (improvements on leased land) account markers and the 2025 pickup list come from the Dawes County assessor's own GIS layers (gWorks map server, read 2026-10-04). OpenStreetMap has no building outlines north of the railroad (Kenwood) yet, and the county publishes no building layer, so those blocks show parcels only.

Values 2014–2025 are the billed totals printed on each parcel's tax statement at Nebraska Taxes Online; 2025–2026 values and parcel facts (owner, use, neighborhood code, sales) come from the Dawes County assessor's public property record. Owner names appear exactly as the county prints them. A hand-edit flag means the parcel did not receive the across-the-board change that its neighborhood code received that year; it is a screening lead, not a finding of wrongdoing, and legitimate reasons (new construction, additions, corrections) exist. Built from records collected September–October 2026.

Class, Use, Code

Three labels the county prints on every parcel: the account type or class (Residential, Commercial, Exempt…) which decides which valuation schedule and factor it gets; the parcel use (Single Family, Multi-Family, "Commerical" as the county spells it…), a description of what is on the lot; and the neighborhood code (1000–2500), the geographic group whose parcels normally move together. Factors and medians here are computed per class and code, so a Residential-class apartment in code 1400 is compared with the other Residential parcels in 1400, whatever their use.

Improvements on leased land (IOLL)

In Chadron this is almost always a trailer house sitting on a rented lot in a trailer park; a few are a store or tower on leased ground (the Viaero strip mall at 1411 W 6th). The county's term for a building that belongs to someone other than the landowner gets its own assessor account and tax bill, separate from the land parcel. The yellow dots mark the county's IOLL accounts; those accounts are not yet in this explorer, so a land parcel with an IOLL dot can show a building at $0 here while the building is taxed under the dot's account number.

2025 pickup list

The assessor's GIS layer of parcels flagged for pickup work (new construction, additions, inspections) in 2025. A parcel on it has a documented reason for an individual 2026 value; a hand-edited 2026 parcel that is not on it is the one to ask about.

Off-year hand edit

An individual change to one parcel's value in a year when its class and code were not being re-appraised (everyone else got the factor) and the parcel had not sold that year or the year before. Re-appraisal years and post-sale changes have an obvious explanation; an off-year edit needs one from the assessor's record file.

Factor

In a normal year the assessor applies one percentage change to every property in a neighborhood code. We detect it as the single most common change in the code; it counts as a factor when at least 60% of the code moved by it.

Hand-edited UP / DOWN

The parcel's change differed from its code's factor by more than 0.2 points: it was valued individually that year.

Re-appraisal year

The whole class was revalued individually (residential 2017, 2022, 2023; commercial 2018–2020, 2026), so there is no factor; the comparison then shows where the parcel sits in its code's distribution.

Percentile

The share of same-code, same-class parcels whose change that year was smaller than this parcel's. 95th = only 5% rose more.